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title: And others said: This distracted Rajpoot wants the moon, but he need… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And others said: This distracted Rajpoot wants the moon, but he needs medicines[2]. Who acts: others, This, Rajpoot. A sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 30

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And others said: This distracted Rajpoot wants the moon, but he needs medicines\[2\].

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**Who acts:** others, This, Rajpoot · **What happens:** say, distract, want, need · **To what, where:** moon, medicines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, This, Rajpoot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:8:30
# text = And others said: This distracted Rajpoot wants the moon, but he needs medicines[2].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	distracted	distract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	Rajpoot	Rajpoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **distract** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | present | Rajpoot | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot moon=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | Rajpoot | medicines |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot medicine=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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